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60100http://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/137416.htmlSat, 13 Jul 2013 00:33:33 GMTFAG frequent flyers...http://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/137416.html
Some of the people who send me corrections to records I maintain on Find a Grave just kill me.<br /><br />They want you to spell names on records the way they want them spelled, instead of what the stone says.<br /><br />I'm not saying a stone carver couldn't have messed up a stone. In photographing graves for a decade, I have seen a couple of stones that some family member should have bitched about.<br /><br />Like the one where the dates of birth and death were reversed on the stone. I have a photo of that stone around here on some flash drive, but can't locate it at the moment.<br /><br />It wasn't at all uncommon for children and/or grandchildren to change a vowel or leave off the last of a double consonant in a surname before we had official identification issued to us by the State. <br /><br />Sometimes I think a bunch of sibs may have decided to really complicate things for their descendants by a practice of only <b>some</b> of the sibs changing a surname spelling. (Here in the south, I am sure they grinned and said some form of, <i>Hey, watch this shit...</i>)<br /><br />In my own family, two clans come to mind immediately - my Wharton/Whortons and my Herrington/Harringtons.<br /><br />So no, I am not changing the spelling on the Evins FAG records in Itawamba Co., MS...<br /><br />And pssstttt...click on <i>Find all Evinses in New Salem Cemetery,</i> and look at that list.<hr />ETA: Now the author of the suggestion has informed me that since I won't change the spelling, she's just duped the record.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dee_burris&ditemid=137416" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttp://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/137416.htmlevinsfindagravepublic2